The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 64

Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for saving her companion from death.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: come, meet, thank, save · To what, where: orders, little mice, companion, death

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 meet	mark
4	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thanked	cc
7	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mice	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mice	amod
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thanked	obj
11	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	7 thanked	advmod
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 saving	mark
13	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thanked	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 companion	nmod:poss
15	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saving	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saving	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Dorothy					tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here	orders = order				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	thank speech: thank	past	Dorothy not said here		the little mice		warmly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
4	save	gerund	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy's companion		death		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent companion=Theme from death=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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